No, I haven't decided to put airbags in the FZ12 !
What I have done is put a variable ride height system into the car though. I wanted to be able to have the car ride at its normal ride height, but also be able to lift when needed to clear speed bumps, and lastly to be able to lower itself also into race mode.
As with a lot of...

The Nissan GT-R is the quintessential Japanese supercar. It’s one of the oldest supercars on sale at the moment - it’s still fundamentally a car that came out in 2007. Technology has moved on significantly since then. Think of the iPhone, which has gone through 10 generations in that time. The GT-R has only been through two major...

With all the hype that went with the Honda Civic Type R launch last year, people seemed to forget we already have a road-going racer available to us, and have had for decades: the Subaru WRX.
It was almost the perfect scenario. I stepped out of the 2018 Subaru Levorg I had had for a few weeks, and straight into the WRX – same motor,...

While the new European-sourced Commodore grabbed the spotlight late last year, the all-new Equinox SUV snuck into town.
It’s the replacement for the long-running Captiva. Drive Life went to the launch of the car in New Plymouth, and we liked it - but that was only a day’s drive. We all know it takes a more than one day to really...

This was an event I was really interested in attending. My last taste of a Chinese-built car was the Chery J11, and it didn’t turn out well. What a terrible car; badly built, slow, noisy. It had it all going.
Then John from Drive Life went to the Haval H2 and H6 launch, and said the build quality was good, and they drove reasonably...

Welcome to the first DriveLife - Car of the Year awards. During the last 12 months, we have reviewed many new cars and the team felt that it was time to hand out our own awards.
We have 11 award categories that vehicles can enter, each with their own criteria which we will cover as we move through each one. The system of eligibility...

One of the things that I did when planning this build was to try to look at each area of the car and see what we could do differently to what others have done and also try to make things with current technology to make sure the car would have all of the bells and whistles expected of a modern car.
Whilst searching around for a...

The Levorg came to New Zealand late last year as the spiritual successor to the Legacy GT Wagon. In case you were wondering, the unusual name comes from a combination of LEgacy, reVOlution, touRinG. We were pretty impressed with the original, and now there’s a revised version. Have they improved on the formula?
The...

The last Gran Turismo game I played was the Gran Turismo 4 on the PlayStation 2. I’m not sure how many of you remember that, it was quite old. I had played all GT games prior to GT4 and in all of them I’d always have a Mazda Roadster, or MX-5 as its known outside Japan, early on in the game for the beginner races. As I progressed...

When the Dodge Challenger Hellcat was launched 2015, there were audible gasps around the world. 707 horse-power in a mass-produced, road-going muscle car – any car – was astonishing at the time. It still is.
Sure, there are other cars now with more horsepower. Dodge released essentially what is a drag car in 2017, the Demon, with...